Romanian director Hanno Höfer to visit the IFI Fri 30th
Romanian director Hanno Höfer to visit the IFI for the opening night of Tales from the Golden Age
Friday 30th October 6.10pm: Post Screening Q+A
Hanno Höfer, one of the rising talents of the current renaissance in Romanian filmmaking, will visit the IFI to introduce and discuss the opening night of Tales from the Golden Age his new directorial collaboration with Christian Mungiu, director of Palme d’Or winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
2009 marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the momentous events which unfolded across Eastern Europe as people took to the streets in public revolt which broke down the Communist regimes, including Ceausescu’s much feared dictatorship in Romania.
The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”…
Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising stories that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime; from smuggling eggs, selling air for a profit, to a suburban family trying to slaughter a pig without alerting the neighbours, A wise and witty collection from those who lived through it all.
Tales from the Golden Age is on limited release from the 30th October. Screening times and tickets are available on www.ifi.ie or call 01 679 3477